“I always knew a good man should do no bad deeds, but it never occurred to me that a good man must do good deeds. He cannot just sit back and do nothing. He cannot just relax and let things happen around him. He must act or his faith is meaningless, mere words or thoughts.”
-Alexandra Lapland
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.
Eleanor Roosevelt
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Abraham Lincoln
Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.
Josiah Gilbert Holland
You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.
Martin Luther
You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
Jim Rohn
Faced with a crisis, the man of falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.
Charles de Gaulle
"The price of greatness is responsibility."
— Winston Churchill
Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.
-Malcolm Forbes
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.
Max DePree
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
Dennis Watley
Character isn't something you were born with and can't change like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility.
Jim Rohn
There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Denis Waitley
"I can't always control my thoughts but I can choose how I respond to them."
~ David Cuschieri
